New Content Warning Policy

Just a heads up that I’m instituting a new Content Warning Policy arising out of the results of the recent survey.

You can read the discussion of data that led to this in the second survey results post (link).

Basically, trying to provide content warnings for every possible thing that a reader could dislike is a futile exercise. It’s unsustainable in terms of work at my end, it deters readers that are actually going to be fine with the story, and it still won’t catch everything that every reader would want.

Instead, I’m going to warn ONLY about the handful of subjects which (a) appear in my work with reasonable frequency and (b) are *particularly* divisive among readers, with particularly large cohorts who’d prefer to avoid it.

Those subjects are:

• Incest
• Piss
• Impregnation/pregnant/breeding
• Hucow
• “Extreme”

Starting today in Early Access, these warnings will appear at the top of new stories bearing these themes in this format:

(CW: Piss)

If there’s no content warning then there’s none of these themes. You’ll still have to click through to the story to see the content warning, but it will be before the substantive story.

I’m only doing it for new stories – I’m not going to go back to old ones, it’s too much work. (But as older stories get reblogged, I’ll update them.)

It’ll start with today’s story in Early Access (“The Foster Girl, Part 16”), and when those stories come to free readers in about 50 days, the content warning will be included for them too. (To be clear, this means that free readers won’t see any content warnings until the end of January.)

I don’t always know where serial stories are going, so the content warnings for one chapter of a serial story won’t necessarily apply to future chapters. HOWEVER, I will make an effort to not introduce these themes late in a story if they’re not foreshadowed in the first few chapters.

For Early Access readers, I’ll also put the full set of content warnings that apply to a serialised story (all chapters) on its contents page in the PDF.

Here’s a few notes on the individual warnings:

• Incest: This will be further broken up into “mother-son”, “mother-daughter”, “father-daughter”, “sister-brother”, “sister-sister”, and “whole family”. I’m just going to use “whole family” if there’s more than two different incest dynamics involved.
• Piss: I’m not going to use this tag if the involvement of urine is just “permission to use the toilet” or a character relieving themselves in a way that isn’t detailed, explicit or messy. For example I’m not going to use it for “Surrender”. But it would absolutely apply to “Brea Comes Home” or “Workplace Culture”. (I regret introducing piss-play relatively late in Workplace Culture after it not featuring in the first six chapters or so, but it’s done now.)
• Impregnation: Used where the impregnation/pregnancy is sexualised and non-hypothetical. I’m not giving this tag to mere unprotected sex unless the aim is to actually get the girl pregnant, even if she specifically thinks about the worry of falling pregnant.
• Hucow: I’m NOT going to use this for pure lactation stories – only where the woman is treated as an animal, has her body modified, or is objectified for her milk production, which seemed to be the specific squick for readers who wanted to avoid this kink.
• “Extreme”: Readers clearly want warning of “extreme” stories, but can’t agree on what those are. So this is going to be *very* subjective and just go on stories where *I* think it gets particularly dark. I’d probably put it on Titcage, The Lesbian Debt, Brea Comes Home, The Convent of Lesba. Maybe Small Town Values. Stories where the abuse is extreme, the girl really doesn’t like it, and there’s a significant degree of dehumanisation by the end. They’re usually stories that I couldn’t take any further because I’ve gone as far as I’m personally comfortable with. I’m almost certainly not going to tag the same set of stories that *you* would, so bear with me and take it for what it is.

All These Roadworks
2 December 2024